MarketResearchReports.biz has announced the addition of a report, titled “Rehabilitation Robots, Active Prostheses, And Exoskeletons: Market Shares, Strategies, And Forecasts, Worldwide, 2014 To 2020.” According to this report, the global rehabilitation robot market’s value of US$43.3 mn is projected to grow dramatically and by 2020, the market’s value is expected to reach US$1.8 bn.

The research report offers an extensive analysis of the global rehabilitation robots, active prostheses, and exoskeletons market. It evaluates the market’s driving forces, the medical conditions treated by rehabilitation robots, wearable modules for disability therapy, robotic modules for disability therapy, and market shares and forecasts.

The patient’s capability of relearning lost functions depends on stimulation of the desire to overcome the disability. Furthermore, the independent functioning of patients depends on the intensity of treatment, active initiation of movements, task-specific exercises, and motivation and feedback. Moreover, rehabilitation robots can provide assistance with this task in several ways.

With patients gaining more strength and better coordination, a therapist can program the robotic system to allow patients to bear more weight and improve free movement in different directions such as walking, kicking a ball, lunging to either side. A rehabilitation robot can follow the patient’s lead effortlessly and the presence of the robot is nearly undetectable unless it senses the patient is starting to fall, in which case it prevents it. During the latter stages of physical therapy, the rehabilitation robot can even deliberately nudge patients off balance in controlled amounts to support their recovery process further.

One of the key trends driving the global rehabilitation robots, active prostheses, and exoskeletons market is the ability of these robots to drive the relearning of lost functions. Other key trends driving the global rehabilitation robots, active prostheses, and exoskeletons market include the growing popularity of modular self-reconfiguring robotic systems, the rising awareness among the public regarding robotics, and the growing demand for next-generation personal and service robotics. Moreover, the growing number of robots used for home, medical, or traveling purposes will also benefit the overall rehabilitation robots market.

Players in the global rehabilitation robots, active prostheses, and exoskeletons market will benefit from the opportunity presented by the next-generation personal and service robotics. Several key companies have been analyzed in the report with their product portfolio. Some of these are AlterG, Ekso Bionics, FANUC, Hocoma, and Kinova. The research report also provides the key new events related to these top firms.